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Great blue heron

A tall white mushroom in the forest.

Small brown mushrooms growing at the base of a tree.

Discern between self-sustaining autotrophs and consumer heterotrophs and find their places in the food chain

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organotroph mycoheterotroph consumer decomposer trophic pyramid nutritional type trophic level autotroph saprotroph